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schools/school-art- The Stout Game Expo (SGX) is Western Wisconsin’s premier exhibition for student-created work in game design and development. At the end of every semester, SGX draws crowds of more than 500 students, parents, and professionals in the field, providing our students the opportunity to professionally exhibit their work and network. Like last Fall, the COVID- 19 pandemic has caused us to host an entirely virtual SGX. Projects are available for viewing and playing through your web browser. Now that it has reached the spring, the senior games are fully complete.

As you browse the SGX website or click game titles in this digital program, we hope you will see the talent, work, and dedication of our students. If you have a few words of encouragement for our students, please feel free to like, comment, or share from our Facebook or Twitter pages.

Dr. Diane Christie Program Director, BS Computer Science Joshua Seaver Interim Program Director, BFA Game Design and Development-Art

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Senior Capstone Games

Curse of Janksbury Dawn of the Falkonir

After unleashing a deadly force upon the Falkonir is a cooperative action-adventure small town of Janksbury, Marcus must game with asymmetric combat and spatial traverse the newly chaotic environment puzzles. Play as Aella, a Falkonir, or Horu, and use his weird new powers to stop the her Falcon, as you work together to explore apocalypse he's unwittingly caused. a devastated magical mountain and end the source of its corruption.

Michael Anderson Jose Estrada Mary Benetti Connor Freiburger Jakob Bjerkness Nate Geschwill Tanner Brun Katharine Grunwald Keenan Geib Zack Olson Michael Hilliger Ash Patterson Eric Hovda Haley Peterson Quinn Huhnke Joey Rongstad Jack Olson Kira Themis Michael Troness Charlie Wery Nicholas Wood Effie Woode Vichai Xiong

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Senior Capstone Games (Cont.) Inconvenience Store One Teddy Lost

Inconvenience Store is a physics-based In a world ravaged by nuclear war, play as a child party game where players are grocery store navigating an abandoned factory. Use your wits employees who compete in mini-games to to befriend or avoid monsters, all to save your become “Employee of the Month.” Gather best friend, a teddy bear. your friends to compete in co-op or free- for-all grocery store based mini-games, or just to run around!

Kendra Aumann-Weyenberg Graham Balfany Darrin Belleau Aiden Gruber Jace Brockopp Jacob Karr Joseph Ceranski Jacob Klitz Kiran Cotting Amy Krekelberg Alex Hallee Madelyn Muckenhirn Brooke Mahoney Aly Shaw Simon Meyer Katherin Valentine Jacob Schultz Matteo Vera Syd Simonis Connor Yarnott Ashley Uecker Katelyn Zenz Jacob Youakim

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Senior Capstone Games (Cont.) Super Nova Stadium Vessel

Join other alien contestants in a ricochet In the ethereal museum of the mind, revisit the battle at the Super Nova Stadium. Harness memories of life through the eyes of young and solar power to fuel your blaster, eliminate old in your journey to rediscover what it means your opponents, and claim victory for to be human. yourself or your team.

Chris Allender Simon Baumgart Mark Daane Blake Bissell Dan Hagedorn Kayleigh Callaway Michael Hosp Allen Fortney Ryan Kilmer Carson Johnson Philip Kukura Mo Morris Nathan Muck Whitney Phillips Thomas Nordrum Emily Pickhardt Gigi Read Brandon Scott Erin Renshaw Emily Shaffer Tommy Xiong Kenley Smith Nickolas Xiong

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Junior Games Along the Silk Road Asunder Battle of the Seas

Along the Silk Road is a single Asunder is a puzzle platformer Experience a card game of player fighting game where you where you guide a kid and their monstrous proportions, a battle for face AI warriors with different shadow through a deserted world control of the mystical seas. Take fighting styles as you travel the to find their way back home. command one of three factions world. (Sea Creatures, Vikings, Pirates) Scott Bartholomew and bring glory to them! Maxton Biggerstaff Brian Bauch Shelby Sundstrom Misha Castillo Canedo Connor Bloomfield Michael Troness Spencer Drow Karl Kazinski Moira Van Loon Henry Fortun Melissa Neumaier Shelby Vian Yair Macagon Jake Reese Ryne Potter Rowdy Vyverberg Eslis Vang Izzy Waldie Mason Waldrip

Contender Froot Punch Get Out! Please?!

Contender is a two-player Prepare for frooty revenge! Take You're a painfully shy ghost living fighter that takes place in space. control of a Tomato and punch in a mansion when intruders You and other beings wish to your way through the fruits that suddenly appear! Possess objects claim an ancient relic as your have wronged you. It is time to to scare away guests as they own by defeating each other, show who the real fruit is! intrude your home. one by one. Zachary Boehm Nick Casey Declin Anderson Ari Hytti Kasey Lacerda David Hall Sara Johnson Isaac Schultz Adam Le Mahieu Riley Mehki Omar Perez Sage Moser Tucker Sandin Cora Moyers Eric Payne

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Junior Games (Cont.) Hat HighRise Kaguya: Star Chaser Magma Mission

Hat HighRise is a platformer where Take on vicious corrupted beasts in Welcome to Magma Mission! In you play as a disgruntled worker a quest to reclaim the stolen stars this game, you must mine as much who's just been fired. Escape the from the terrible World Eater. gold as possible before the volcano tower with as many hats as erupts! Play as 3-GG-0, the brave possible on your way to freedom. Lindsey Brown and rambunctious robot! Michelle Bryant Isabella Capanda Emyee Fox Alec Jakopin Sam Clysdale Brad Haaning Trent LeClair Steve Datz Alex Konop Carter Nelson Anton Nikitin Hope Lory Jaden Schneider John Samuelson James Valentino Renell Sherman

Aaron Tweden

Matter-Mover MonkE Pew Golem Olek

Play as a professional mover that You are a MonkE fighting Golems in a Olek is a rhythm game where you moves all types of objects. Move twin-stick shooter. You must defend play as a robot named Olek. You the objects from around the map the jungle at all costs using your will fight to the beat timing your into the designated area. spells. Can MonkE Pew Golem? attacks and eliminating the robot animal threat in your way.

Maggie Butler Matt Anderson Zach Geyer Thomas Lindusky Grayson Dunham Rodger Lugo Damian Link Harrison Kelly Justin Melby Dante Vu Ben Odrich Cole Puertas Cole Woulf Kali Xayaphonesongkham

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Junior Games (Cont.) Project: Husk Squared Up Stronger Than Brass

Control an enigmatic Doctor, trapped in Join Cubert, a 3D shape, on his quest Stronger than Brass is their maze-like lab with a bloodthirsty to escape the 2nd dimension. a Metroidvania game where you play husk. With the only weapon stolen by Navigate puzzles by morphing an automaton with magic abilities. You the clone, the Doctor's only option is to Cubert's form and interacting with have two weapons and two magic run, and fast. the world to escape to the 3rd elements which can be combined for dimension. special attacks. Hannah Byers Chloe Ferguson Aaron Duffey Jason Bates Tyler Garcia Benjamin Lussman Ryan Briggs Anna Kopplin Isaac Moua Bryce Cernohous-Schrader Tyberius Livingston Wyatt Senalik Katherine Monte Vincent Lubasi Joseph Vang Reece Parsons Micah Weltzin

Ultimatum: Act 1 Within Darkness

Fight your way through a horde of Within Darkness is a top-down skeletons, demons, and fearsome strategy horror game inspired by a specters to face Tituss, defender of the mash up of Dead by Daylight and circle of limbo. Will you be able to Pacman. The player must repair the 5 defeat this fearsome foe? wire boxes, while hiding from a monster that is lurking in the dark. Illiana Barragan Divyansh Malik Skyler Grabowsky Artur Pilatovs Alex Hernandez Noah Simonson Malcolm Howard Deven Short Reece Nadle

Bryce Niles Maria Wood

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DESIGN-350 Games Capital City The Final Judgement Hallways

Discover the unpleasant truth of this This experience has you wake up in your A 3d horror Experience created for my city as you navigate your way through brand-new apartment, as you explore a 3d Game Engines and Art class at UW back allies, dark sewers, and bit more, you find that this is not your Stout. I created this project with Maya, abandoned structures in an attempt to average day. For today, your Final Zbrush, Substance Painter, Mixamo, reach the capital. Judgement will be cast! and Unity.

Nicolas Ockwig Malcom Howard Graham Balfany

Sanctuary Seldom Seclusion The Sun: Maze of Decision

Maneuver your way through the twists Seldom Solace is a game about self- You wake up and find yourself in a maze and turns of the destroyed landscape isolation and introspection, and the of hedges decorated with sunflowers. and discover the truths within yourself. effects it can have. Explore the cabin, and Above you is a palace where the flag of Will chaos bring you down or will you perhaps find something hidden deeper redemption stands. Your goal is to find serenity through the destruction? inside. navigate through the maze to try and reach the palace in the sky and obtain the flag. But be careful. Every decision you make will impact your journey. Anna Thiele Jace Brockopp Marcus Clure

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DESIGN-350 Games (Cont.) Sword Temperance Gardens The Universe

Sword is a multi-level VR experience Temperance Gardens is a 3D experience The Universe explores the emotional with a possible PC port focused based on the tarot card Temperance. The and physical trials of human life. upon kitsch low poly gaming main elements I take from this card are Discover growth, reflect on the past, aesthetics. Best experienced with an peace, balance, and tranquility. Have fun! and appreciate every success. This Oculus Quest 2. experience is inspired by The Universe tarot card. Harrison Kelly Eleanore Falck Kali Gardner

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Sophomore Games

Alchemist Exile Cave Hero Cryptid Slayer

Play as an Alchemist on the run in this You play as a miner who has a bad day Bigfoot has stolen your lumberjack 2D sidescroller. Make use of your on the job that alters their whole life. axe! Fight cryptids, solve puzzles, and sword and potions to fend off enemies You will mine stones, fight enemies, take back what's yours! and survive! and explore through multiple levels.

Bryant Borland Tiffany Johnson Dustin Anderson Tyler Christianson Luke Linna Madeline Huc Jake Fischer Logan Pribyl Noah Muhammad Bryr Harenda Raven Rohne Bryce Niles Sam Schmitz

Homeless Hamster Kill All Gods Kindled

Chibi the hamster dreams of returning You are Wolven, a familiar created by A top down randomized rogue-lite to nature. One day she escapes and a god of the Old Pantheon. He was bullet hell where you play as an Oil starts a dangerous journey. Chibi must killed by opposing gods, however you Diver equipped with only a lantern. fight rats, squirrels, and other beasts to have persisted beyond his death and You delve into the forgotten ruins find a new home. now seek revenge. under your oil rig to figure out why the oil has dried up

Trinity Beltran Lou Brown Joshua Armbrecht Ashton Musielewicz Charles Heikkila. Sam Baeseman Matthew Hoover Sabrina Rick Joshua Krenek Ben Trute Tim Wenzel Alex Stieby

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Sophomore Games (Cont.)

The Last Song Lost Monster Farm

You play as a male Kauaʻi ʻōʻō, one of Lost in a monster-filled labyrinth with Grow monster plants and fight them the last birds of your species. You play nothing but a ball of fire to guide you. to harvest them. through various 2D platforming levels to find the last female of your species.

Noah Braun Cameron Brickl Matt Bedsted Joe Czech Hailee Kane Brock Blanck Audrey Lawson Jackson Livesey Brandon Hinz Zach Lubich Brendon Perez Jeremy Ivanauski Mags Marcinkiewicz

Poltergeist Contender Froot Punch

Become a ghost and use your various Contender is a two-player fighter that Prepare for frooty revenge! Take poltergeist powers in this perplexing takes place in space. You and other control of a Tomato and punch your puzzle game. beings wish to claim an ancient relic as way through the fruits that have your own by defeating each other, one wronged you. It is time to show who by one. the real fruit is!

Benjamin Bucheger Declin Anderson Zachary Boehm Dylan Hestwood David Hall Ari Hytti Maxwell Willman Adam Le Mahieu Sara Johnson Judge Xiong Omar Perez Riely Mehki Tucker Sandin Sage Moser Cora Moyers

Eric Payne

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Sophomore Games (Cont.) Hat HighRise Olek Project: Husk

Hat HighRise is a platformer Olek, a rhythm game where you play Control an enigmatic Doctor, trapped in where you play as a disgruntled as a robot named Olek. You will fight their maze-like lab with a bloodthirsty worker who's just been fired. to the beat timing your attacks and husk. With the only weapon stolen by Escape the tower with as many eliminating the robot animal threat in the clone, the Doctor's only option is to hats as possible on your way to your way. run, and fast. freedom.

Isabella Capanda Zach Geyer Hannah Byers Sam Clysdale Rodger Lugo Chloe Ferguson Steve Datz Justin Melby Tyler Garcia Anton Nikitin Cole Puertas Anna Kopplin Jaden Schneider Kali Xayaphonesongkham Tyberius Livingston James Valentino Vincent Lubasi Reece Parsons Micah Weltzin

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Freshman Print and Play Games Bucket List Bug Hunt Chick Magnet

Your wealthy grandfather has two A powerful, otherworldly creature has Chick Magnet is a game that has players weeks to live. You and made its way onboard your crew’s ship! try to be the best chicken farmer by your siblings scheme and Team up with your friends to hunt down collecting as many chickens as possible sabotage each other to earn Grandpa’s this stowaway, or play the menace itself as by using cards or rolling dice for love while helping him check items off a fiendish alien. chickens, or player can destroy all his bucket list. opponents’ coops within ten rounds to be victorious.

Breckin Berg Aaron Haddaway Ethan Burke Emily Inman Gary Menting Grace Eapen Ben Jiang Kaitlyn Nutt Hunter Hintz Jack Pellock Jaden Zezza Sheiny Vang

Exarch of The Forest Familiar Faces From the Depths

The Exarch and his forests have proven You are a familiar whose master died. Oxygen is in limited supply as you come to be far to dangerous, adventures Work through the stages of Grief by up From the Depths in this underwater have assembled to protect the villages managing sorrow and resilience, trading race. Luck, shortcuts, and events add and put a end to the Exarchs reign over cards, and completing tasks. Only by uncertainty, along with the forest. reaching Acceptance can you win the a customizable board each session. game.

Liam Harrison Rachel Bagley Timothy Daix Jaice Jahnke Axel Crossley Carter Gehl Bryce VanDyke Jackson Feggestad Logan Johnson Yae Jin Yaste Sarah Ziebarth Laura Supinski

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Freshman Print and Play Games (Cont.) Generic Extraterrestrial Grudgemental Ghosts Lawn Lords Automobile Race (G.E.A.R)

The galactic racing season has begun. Kick back with your recently deceased A retired demon lord just wants to relax The galaxy’s best drivers compete for friends and dredge up your most but neighborhood kids are trying to the title prize. The first team to reach embarrassing memories from your past steal his prized lawn flamingo. The lawn the galaxy’s edge wins the Generic life. Clever card play allows you to discard is trapped to keep the kids away. Will Extraterrestrial Automobile Race! your Grudges to win the game. they succeed?

Brady Anderson Spencer Clark Jacob Buelow Emmy Dziuk Camile Lemm Bailey Chumas Ian Fredericks Savannah Rickert Nate Leimer Jordan Grider Michael Witt Chase Richards

Match of Minotaurs MEATBAGS Mistakes Were Made

Minotaurs battle through a series of A mysterious force has reanimated four A routine job mining an labyrinths, trying to reach the frantic Meatbags who will go head-to- asteroid becomes a struggle for survival. colosseum above. Gear up for the final head in a life-or-death battle to obtain the The miners must work together showdown on the top floor – only one Golden Heart and regain their humanity. to survive or the monster will violently of you will escape! defeat them and return to its simple life.

Madeline Dudley Oliver Butler John Branton Brian Nelson Ben Krats Gavin Hefty Blane Seuss Udit Patel Harrison Stone Jacob Zainer Howie Ramaley Kolbe Ward Will Sagstetter

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Freshman Print and Play Games (Cont.) Monster Fueled Feud Mortal Ascension Night Terrors

Ametrine Valley has been taken over by As a slain Greek Hero, Hades grants you a Night Terrors is a game where players monsters and you need to stop them. reprieve, of sorts... Can you survive the must roll dice, draw cards and use Find all three parts of the perils of the dream abilities in order to race across weapon created to defeat them and gain underworld and escape to be brought the board and escape the world of glory beyond comparison! back to life? nightmares first.

Matthew Fritz Vang Lee Jaden Bainbridge Tyler Smith Silver Oertel Patyon Fehrenbach Ethan Stark Connor Swendiman Dustin Gray Zachary Toohey Rowan Verdouw Laela Warner Ethan Van Vooren

Nightmarish Next of Kin Parasite Breach Pit of Glory

Complete tasks and earn favor from the A dangerous parasite is on Grab your weapons and enter the ghosts haunting Grim the loose. Scientists must craft tools and arena. Slay creatures Manor. Appease the ghosts, play runes, weapons to defeat the rogue parasite and gain loot. Dodge, block, and outmaneuver your opponents to claim before it escapes from the lab and slash, and bash your way to becoming the Manor for yourself and win the game. wreaks havoc on the world. the last gladiator standing in the Pit of Glory.

Jillian Chaltry Jesse Bauer Zoom Coe Augusto Freitas Justin Eirich Justin Schnell Dom Mei Hannah Johansen Mark Tillman Payton Ness Tianqi Ma Daniel Woo

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Freshman Print and Play Games (Cont.) Primordium SF Hephaestus Social Media Showdown

Arise from the pool of life to dominate Pirates search for loot in an abandoned Social media influencers the ecosystem. Use genetic material space station but find themselves hunted must manage their Marketability and to evolve and build your own tree of by something lurking inside. Can they Notoriety in the search for fame and life to become the first species to escape or will they perish at the hands of a followers. Eventually everyone plays dirty achieve sentience. hostile entity? -- all is fair in the world of social media.

Ellie Aas Rocky Blixt Patrick Connors Dayton Andersen Dorian Blossom Daniel Johnsen Samuel Lambert Will Canter Michael Kanoski Evan Prince Nathan Willius

Suboptimal

In the year 5048 earth is submerged under water! Set off in your submarines and fight for survival. You must think fast using limited resources to overcome the challenges lurking ahead.

Cooper Adcock Amelia Moschkau Tyler Svihovec Brandon Yang

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Independent Projects Max Willman’s Dice Masters Tri-Pantheon

Dice Masters is the game about grabbing that hoard of Battle for power in this epic Greek Mythology game. Three dice you collect and justify your purchase history through players take on the roles of the “Big Three,” Zeus, Hades, epic battles of dice legions against you and your fellow and Poseidon, and attempt to influence various mythical dice hoarders. With fun charismatic cards, creative and creatures, heroes, and immortals. Will you prove to Mount customizable liberties, and its ability to be played nearly Olympus and all of Greece that you truly are the most anywhere this game is sure to become a favorite to all powerful god? during your next game session.

Max Willman Kendra Aumann-Weyenberg Cassie Isaacson Ebonee Rainwater Sami Reid Emily Shaffer Syd Simonis

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Special Thanks to the Following Organizations

College of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics & Management (STEMM) School of Art & Design (SOAD) College of Arts, Communication, Humanities & Social Sciences (CACHSS) University Marketing Game Design and Development (GDD) Professional Advisory Board UW-Stout International Game Developers Association (IGDA) Berklee College of Music

Special Thanks to the Following Individuals

Dr. Diane Christie, Program Director BS-Computer Science Joshua Seaver, Interim Program Director BFA-Game Design and Development-Art Jackie Riley, STEMM Program Associate Stephanie Danielson, SOAD Program Associate Catherine Jacobs, SOAD Office Associate Dr. Gindy Neidermyer, Interim Dean CSTEMM Dr. Robert Zeidel, Interim Dean of CACHSS Alexis Williams, SGX Planning Assistant Dr. Seth Berrier, GDD Faculty Karl Koehle, GDD Faculty Kim Loken, GDD Faculty Jay Little, GDD Faculty Dr. Michael Tetzlaff, GDD Faculty Dr. Tyler Thomas, GDD Faculty Jeff Tidball, GDD Faculty Matt Forbeck, GDD Faculty Gerald Schuster, UW-Stout Webmaster

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